 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong. FROM ESS AY ON CRITICISM. 305 In the bright muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried,' MJ Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong : 4 In the bright muse, though thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...too new, or old : Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire ; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...New, or Old; Be not the first by whom the New are try'd, 335 Nor yet the last to lay the Old aside. But most by Numbers judge a Poet's Song, And smooth...rough, with them, is right or wrong; In the bright Muse tho' thousand Charms conspire, Her Voice is all these tuneful Fools admire, 340 Who haunt Parnassus... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 pages
...dressed appropriately in contemporary metaphor and idiom: But most by Numbers judge a Poet's Song, 337 And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong; In the bright Muse tho' thousand Charms conspire, Her Voice is all these tuneful Fools admire, Who haunt Parnassus but... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...rumbling cart." After pointing out that critics have no discrimination, or proper judgment, and that — " Most, by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong." instead of regarding the work as whole, he attacks with bitter sarcasm the feeble poets whose productions... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 1997 - 260 pages
...empowerment to treat the grandest of sacred subjects. Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism," 337-57, 362-73 But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song, And smooth or rough, with them, is right or wrong; • -| ' ' i - T • r ' In the Bright Muse tho' thousand charms conspire, - ' r ' i - ' r ' i" Her... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...too new, or old; Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. But most by numbers judge a poet's song, And smooth...conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; 340 Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, J... | |
 | Cath Arnold - 1999 - 164 pages
...who writes down or films whatever happens. The focus is on the here and now. ANALYSING OBSERVATIONS But most by numbers judge a poet's song: And smooth or rough with them, is right or wrong: (Pope, 1985) what is considered 'normal' for most children of the same age (Oates, 1994). We must not... | |
 | Jonathan Holden - 1999 - 180 pages
...unchanging Sun, Clears and improves whate're it shines upon, It gilds all objects, but it alters none. . . . But most by Numbers judge a Poet's song; And smooth or rough, with them is right or wrong; . . . True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance.... | |
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Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho... 
